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Andy Revkin

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Feb 21, 2025

A Wired Journalist Shows How to Avoid Boosting Musk’s and Trump’s Dodgy “DOGE” Propaganda

It’s a small thing to say “Dodge” instead of DOGE, but words do matter fighting authoritarian takeovers.

A Wired Journalist Shows How to Avoid Boosting Musk’s and Trump’s Dodgy “DOGE” Propaganda

Andy Revkin

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Feb 21, 2025

Something Trump Can Do to Help Americans Withstand Extreme Temperatures — Cold and Hot

Maybe it’s finally time for a life-saving cold.gov online resource to go with heat.gov

Something Trump Can Do to Help Americans Withstand Extreme Temperatures — Cold and Hot

Andy Revkin

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May 27, 2021

How to Navigate Stormy, Overheated Times

How to foster an adaptive, agile, inquiry-based approach to building a life course — drawing on 35 years of risk-focused reporting.

How to Navigate Stormy, Overheated Times

Andy Revkin

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Apr 16, 2021

When a Submarine Sank our Sailboat

By Bill Revkin (written in 2018; published here by his son Andy)

When a Submarine Sank our Sailboat

Andy Revkin

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Feb 17, 2021

Lessons from Lost Cities, Visions of Altered Skies

Authors Elizabeth Kolbert and Annalee Newitz explore past urban ages and future Earth fixes.

Lessons from Lost Cities, Visions of Altered Skies

Andy Revkin

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Feb 14, 2020

Family statement on the passing, at 79, of Rajendra Pachauri, who led the U.N.’s

I reported on the rise, triumphs, tribulations and troubles of Rajendra K. Pachauri, the longest-serving chairman of the Intergovernmental…

Family statement on the passing, at 79, of Rajendra Pachauri, who led the U.N.’s

Andy Revkin

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Jan 18, 2020

A Selfless Parrot and Australia’s Fires

A friend and Earth Institute colleague, Brighton Kaoma, posted a Buddhist parable on Facebook that prompted me to think about the…

A Selfless Parrot and Australia’s Fires

Andy Revkin

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Jul 4, 2018

Thank You, Brain — A Stroke as a Gift

Seven years ago, my brain hinted to me that I might be having a stroke.

Thank You, Brain — A Stroke as a Gift

Andy Revkin

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Jun 17, 2018

A Farewell to Ice (a 1995 Climate Warning)

This story of mine, about the rapid retreat of iconic glaciers that long defined life in the Swiss Alps, was originally published in Conde…

A Farewell to Ice (a 1995 Climate Warning)

Andy Revkin

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Apr 26, 2018

Bob Kates, a Pioneer in Sustainability Science— A Farewell at 89

I first got to know the self-described “independent scholar” Bob Kates when I was working on the special “Managing Planet Earth” issue of…

Bob Kates, a Pioneer in Sustainability Science— A Farewell at 89

Andy Revkin

Andy Revkin

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Pursuing progress on a finite planet at @columbia @earthinstitute. The rest? Family, friends, books j.mp/revkinbooks, songs j.mp/revkinmusic

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